Joseph RouxThinkers

having Connections is vital — it is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent alone.

Death is difficult not only among lovers, but also among friends. We call a man who has lost his father an 'orphan' and a man who has lost his wife a 'widower', and yet we have no name for that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend.

The Death of a friend is a terrible thing. We call a man who has lost his father an 'orphan' and a man who has lost his wife a 'widower', and yet we have no name for that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend.

Education is that which teaches discernment.

Experience is a poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called "our illusions".

The Friend is rare, for the good reason that men are not common.

Friendship is a particular kind of relationship wherein a death is not adequately recognized by our language. We call a man who has lost his father an 'orphan' and a man who has lost his wife a 'widower', and yet we have no name for that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality ; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Isolation is distinguished from solitude in this — solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

A Quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of spirit and a stone in the hand of a fool.